While Duncan & RJ busied themselves on the new RoW (see separate post), Ken, Gareth, David & Neil Mc took themselves further up the hillside to repair two stiles above Pudsey Clough.
The helpful landowner transported the timbers up the hillside with his quad bike, saving us a long carry, and also saving us some energy for the digging ahead!
As is often the case, digging out the 'stumps' of the old (and now broken) timbers took a lot longer than putting the new structures in place!
Ken & Gareth erected a new stile side-post which had managed to rot away at ground level while remaining incredibly robust and solidly entrenched below ground. This meant digging a hole as deep as the bottom of the post to extract it! Adopting a “job & finish” approach, they then left David & Neil staring into their own even bigger hole, which fortunately yielded up its treasures in time for them to erect an entire new stile by mid-afternoon.
Today’s work was funded by the wreath making workshop in December 2025 in Cornholme. As always we are very grateful to the donors and to everyone else who supports our work.
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| The blue "pin" marks the location of stile 1. |
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| A welcome helping hand. |
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A very broken down stile... stile 1
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